What’s gone down recently is really mostly a “rally ’round the flag”-effect. Good comparisons would be Thatcher and the Tories right around the Falkland crisis, or indeed the POTUS (for whose popularity ratings the term was originally coined) every time the US gets involved in something that spurs patriotism.
Case in point (G.W. Bush approval ratings):
Then you have three other main factors pertaining to V.V. Putins general popularity – namely the abysmal job his predecessor did, the very tangible improvement of peoples lives in Russia under Putin and the lack of any credible alternatives. In other words, it’s no wonder he’s heaps popular and there’s no need to ascribe it to propaganda or personality cults or anything like that.
Well, it was just a tongue-in-cheek comment but good response!
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